I agree about the loss of customers, Chillinfar. It makes more sense to target your largest demographic when it comes to game design. I know they've actually got some hardcore people to buy those 200$ cards. My question is, would they really make more money on those few people willing to spend as much? Or would they make more if they had priced the cards at something more of the population would have been willing to pay. Personally, I think 20$ for a single card is still obscene, but I imagine they would have sold far more of them at that rate than 200$.

Also, about hating on Nutaku, I try to stay away from that thread you linked earlier since it was started by a guy who was raging about RNG not being on his side more than anything. I have my own RNG stories, like I still haven't gotten that sexy judge card and she always seems to pop up when I decide "I won't card reveal this time". But that's just RNG, a part of life in general, not gonna whine about that.

Guys... the card doesnt cost 200$ or 50$. the card + other things u buy to play are 200$. for 200$ u can buy 6-7 bundles that can last u a long period. also those bundles help you get other cards.

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the only problem i see here is that is not something permanent and the low/mid pay users wont be able to get the necessary medals to trade in for the 2000 medals cards

I'm fairly certain everyone realizes that. My question to you is, would you really drop 200$ in one go on ANY of their games with the intent to use it all at some point? I admit that I spend money on this game, but it's only in the form of the daily e-gachas and card reveals to go with them. Beyond that, I don't buy any kind of recovery items etc, if you do even remotely well in the events, you can create a fair stockpile of them yourself. Regardless of being technical for the sake of it and saying the cards actually cost "2000 medals," the fact remains that you cannot obtain the cards without first paying 200$ or 50$.

It's the exact same type of crap most businesses sell people with, just on a huge scale. "Buy this thing and get this thing *free*." It isn't free, you had to pay money on something else to attempt to justify calling it such.

That's why i guess Nutaku still giving pero burguers despite EG event ended, to prevent stacking of items. I don't see this bad ("game balance") the bad thing is the gap made against low/mid cashers. As i said before, daily deals was cut since some time ago.

In the past, you can find 12 mid pudding at $3 (as daily deal, once per day), made for this kind of events. Now this was cut and packs costs more, keeping only the packs for whales.

Other good idea was the half pack (1 half pudding + 1 half peronamin), made for perogambit and was pretty cheap (with the same limit, once per day).

Nutaku can clean a bit the stacking disease with those measures, but if they forget again to fill the gap made, more casuals will drop the game.